The Beginning - The Mission Call

August 1, 2016

This is the beginning of our Peruvian humanitarian mission. Our children and grandchildren gathered around us as Sandy opened the mission call. Hurray! We are going to the South America, Northwest Area, based in Lima, Peru, to serve as humanitarian welfare missionaries. Our mission starts in January 2017 and we will serve for 18 months.


We had hoped we were going to serve in Peru on this humanitarian mission. We had previously interviewed with Elder and Sister Lasson at Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City, and they had flagged our names for this mission.

Opening the Mission Call with our New Mexico family (minus a son-in-law in Minnesota and a granddaughter born 8 hours after we opened the mission call)
Our mission calls: one for Sandy and one for Marshall
The next 5 months promise to be extremely busy as Sandy learns Spanish and we prepare everything we need in order to leave on this incredible adventure into the unknown.